Mehdi Huseynzade Monument () - is a monument to the Azerbaijani partisan of the

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Mekhti Huseynzade Lieutenant Mehdi Huseynzade (; ; 22 December 1918, in Novxanı, Azerbaijan – 2 November 1944, in Vitovlje, Nova Gorica, Vitovlje, Slovenia) was an Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II. He was posthumously awar ...

, and was installed in 1973 in the capital of

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, Baku, in the park along the Bakikhanov street near the northern entrance into the city. The sculptor is Fuad Abdurakhmanov, the Peoples Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, the architect is Mikael Useinov, the Peoples Architect of the USSR. The expressive figure of

Mehdi Huseynzade Lieutenant Mehdi Huseynzade (; ; 22 December 1918, in Novxanı, Azerbaijan – 2 November 1944, in Vitovlje, Nova Gorica, Vitovlje, Slovenia) was an Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II. He was posthumously awar ...

in a fluttering cloak and with a grenade in his right hand stands on an unworked block of granite. As noted by the art critic Kamil Mammadzade, the attention is drawn to "the accuracy of the proportions ratio of the sculptural and architectural parts. The authors used the features of the relief of the mountainous part of the city, due to which the monument is clearly visible. According to the art critic Jamila Novruzova, the monument “combines as complex psychological tasks, also and monumental and decorative ones”.

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Baku Baku (, ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Azerbaijan, largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region. Baku is below sea level, which makes it the List of capital ci ...

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